The Sun. — London, England, 1864-05-23 00:00:00

AMERICA• REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. The royal mail steamship Europa, from Boston on the 11th, and Halifax on the 13th, arrived at Queenstown at 5 p.m. on the 22d inst. She brings us passengers and 42,455 dollars in specie. The Europa landed 128 sacks of mails and seven pas sengers, and proceeded for Liverpool at 5.15 p,m, ; all well. NEW YOBK, May 10 (Evening). Gen. Grant fought two severe battles in Wilder ness on the .sth and 6th inst., but no official reports have as yet been published of these encounters. Secretary Stanton has issued a bulletin stating that the general results might be considered as a success to the Federal arms. The fighting on the 6th was the most desperate that has been known in modern times. A large number of prisoners have been both lost and cap tured. Nearly the whole of the 7th Pennsylvania Regiment was taken. Gen. Wadsworth has been killed. After the battle of the 6 th Gen. Lee commenced a retreat during the night by the direct road, and on the 7th Gen. Grant bega n the pursuit. Gen. Hancock passed through Spottsylvania Court-house on the Bth, and on the same day Grant's headquar ters were 20 miles south of the battlefield of the 6th. President Lincoln has issued a proclamation stat ing that sufficient was known of the Federal opera tions to give cause for special gratitude to God, and recommending all patriots to return thanks to Him. Congratulatory visits were paid by the Washington citizens to the President, when he made a speec'i, in which he said that, although Grant had met with stubborn resistance, he was not forced back from the line of operations on which he had started, but was advancing on the line he had marked oat before the movement commenced. Correspondents furnish the following particu. lays : In the battle of the sth General Sedgwick ad vanced on the centre, General Hancock on the left, and General Warren on the centre. Strong resist ance was offered by the Confederates under Generals Hill, Longstreet, and Ewell, and fighting coctinued along the whole Federal line until nightfall. In this day's battle the Confederates are reported to have captured nearly the whole of two Federal bri gades, together with their commanders—Se:,mour and Shale:. Oa the 6th the engegement was re• newed, and continued throughout the day with little abatement. In the forenoon Hancock was driven back, the Confederates repossessing themselves of some of the ground lost on the previous day. Sedg wick, on the right, was thrown into confusion, but reformed, supported by Burnside's reserve. Late in the day the Confederates pierced the Federal cen tre, pushing the Federals so far back as nearly to detach their right wing. At the close of the even ing the advantage appeared to be on the aide of the Confederates. Oa the.night of the 6th Grant transferred the 6th corps from the right to the extreme left and consoli dated his lines. Lee commenced retreating during the night, and on the following day the firing was of a desultory nature, both armies manoeuvring, Grant advancing his troops on the Spottsylvania Court-house road. In the afternoon Lee's whole force was in full retreat, in good order, to take up another line of defence. It was supposed that Lee would halt on the North Anna River. The Federal losses in both days' battles are esti mated at from 8,000 to 12,000 men hors de combat, A telegram from the Medical Director announced that from 6,000 to 8,000 wounded were being ',eat on to Washington. In his official report of the battle of the 6th Gene ral Lee says : " Onr loss in killed is large, but we have not many wounded. General Longatreet is severely wounded, Pegram badly wounded, and Jenkins killed." He thanks God that every advance of Grant had been repulsed. Fort rewhaltan, Wilson's Wharf, end City Point, on the James River, had been occupied by General Bailer without resistance, and on the 9th the same General reports that he had advanced up the Pen insula with 1,700 coloured cavalry, crossing the Caickahominy to take up positions. As the Fede rals advanced on Richmond 3,000 cavalry from Suffolk crossed the Blackwater River and burnt the railroad bridge be'ow Petersburg, thereby sepa rating Beauregard's forces at Petersburg. One portion of Beauregard's forces was beaten by Butler after severe fighting. Butler has ordered up sup plies, saying he can hold his position against Lee's whole army. He says Grant will not be troubled with reinforcements to Lee from Beauregard. General Sherman has oacapied Tunnel-hill, and General Johnston is in position at Buzz ird Roost Pass, north of Dalton. Sherman is now fighting for possession of Rocky Face Ridge. Macpherson has taken Snake Creek Gap, and is within seven miles of Resaca, in Johnston's rear, Scolefield flank ing Johnston from Cleveland, From the Red Ricer accounts continue more dis astrous to the Federal arms. The Confederate ram off Newborn is reported to have sunk. The New York Chamber of Commerce has ap pointed a committee to receive subscriptions to pay the interest of the State debt to foreigners in coin. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, Money abundant. Gold, 69 per cent. premium Exchange as London, 186. _ Socks firm, and advancing. New York Central E, 130! ; Illinois, 1241, ; Erie, 1091 ; Six per Cent, United States' Bonds, Mt. Cotton quiet—middling upland, 83c. Petroleum —crude, 38c. ; refined, 56c, MAY 11, 6 a.m. Mr. Stanton reports that in Gsneral Grant's de. spatehes, dated the 9tb, afternoon, it is stated that Lee made a stand at Spottsylvania Court -house Hard fighting occurred, but no general engageraeui 0 ran ensued. General Sedgwick was killed by sharpshooters On the 9th Grant showed no signs of renewing the attack, being engaged in replenishing his stores from the supply trsan, in order to be able to advance without that encumbrance. Generals Getty, Talbot, Morrie, Robinsor, and Baxter have been wounded. Correspondents state the sth Federal Army Corps to have been eng aged on the Bth inst. th ree m iles north of Spottsylvania Court-house with General Ewell and part of Longstreet' s Corps, whi c h h a d reached Spottsylvania by an inner road. The Federate held their position, but suffered heavily in killed and wounded. Grant is reported to bo t vo miles north of Spott sylvania Court-house, with Lee in his front, Ewen holding the heights north of that place. Grant's losses are now estimated at 27,000 men. It is reported that General Butler was engaged yesterday, end that an engagement also took piece between the iron-clads on James River. (By TELEGRAPH TO HALIFAX NEW YORK, May 12, Morning. On the 10th inst. General Grant fought a'Ather sanguinely battle with Lee, which lasted from the afternoon until dark. Grant's lines extended six miles along the northeast bank of the river Po, the Confederates occupying the south-east bank and the village of Spottsylvania. The attack was come menced by the artillery of General Grant. Towards dark Burnside was ordered to charg e the Confede. rate right flank. when it was discovered that Lee had advanced round the Federal right flank, and was moving down to break through Grant's lines, and had captured the supply trains in the Frede ricksburg plank-road. This checked Burnside's intended movement, and he held his ground, threatening the Confederate right, while the Sixth Corps charged the Confederate centre, driving the enemy from their first line of r'fl3 pits and captur ing 2 000 priscn;rs, Iu consequrnce of Lee's movement Grant placed his troops about, and having moved his trains to the rear, secured a new position for h's artillery; but Lee did not follow up the movement. During the night he was reported to be moving. On the .11th Barnaido advanced and occupied Spttsy Ivania Court-house, driving Hitl's forces before biol. 40,000 in killed, wounded, and missing. General Warren is reported to be killed. Johnston's position at Resaco has been fLund too strong for attack. VENING. No report has been received of the battle being renewed at Spottaylvania on the 11th. Lee is reported to be in a very strong position, behind earthworks and woods. The occupation of Spottsylvania by Burnside has not been confirmed. The Federal depot for the wounded is at Frede ricksburg. The Africa, City of Manchester, and North American have arrived out. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Gold fluctuated yesterday and to-day between 77 and 72 per cent. premium, and closes to-day at a premium of 75 per cent. Exchange on London, 188 to 190. Stocks slightly firmer. New York Centrals, 1311 ; Illinois, 125; Erie, 110; Six per Cent. United States Bonds, 1061. Cotton slightly firmer, middling upland, 85c. to 86c. Flour quiet. Wheat advancing. Corn better. Provisions steady. Coffee quiet. Sugar firmer. Molasses quiet. Petroleum—crude, 3740.; refined, 571 e. to 58c. Naval and military Intelligence. THE NAVY. OnTc'riday afternoon, the 13th inst., five large ships be longing to the Channel squadron, under command of Rear- Admiral S. C. Dacres, C. 8., arrived in Plymouth Sound from the Downs. Although it was the period of seep tides, they were safely navigated one at a time, and a high water permitted, through the narrows into Hamoaze, and placed in the various docks in the arsenals at Devonport and Key- ham, The water was then pumped out, the bottoms of the _ . ships ware cleansed and recoated, the valves were ovei - hauled, and all the necessary interior alterations were made; the water was let into the docks again, and on Saturday last the ships resumed their moorings in Plymouth Sound, fully prepared for any coutingency. The depth of water in the harbour, the value of the recent enlargement of the docks, and other improvements at Plymouth, have thus been tested most satisfactorily; but it was only through the energy of the Harbour master, the Master attendant, and the officers and artisans of the establishment, cordially aided by the commanders and crews of the ships, that so much has been done in so short a time. The Controller of the Navy, Rear-Admiral Spencer Robinson, has been in frequent personal consultation with Rear-Admiral Sy monds, C.D., superintendent of the yard, and the services of the electric wire in connection with Whitehall have been in constant requisition. The flagship Edgar, 71, Capt. G. T. Hornby was placed in No 2 dock at Keyham, where her copper was cleansed from all the slime and weed which had accumulated during the Jest 12 months. The iron built screw steamship Black Prince, Capt. James F. W. Wain wright, was placed in the Prince's Dock at Devonport, out of which she was taken in November, 1863. Her bottom was tolerably free ; it was scoured, and received another coating of Hay's composition. Her frame ap pears to have sustained its original condition unbroken — the sights on deck proved her to be precisely the same in dock as when afloat. According to Admiralty order, the ponderous screw, 35 tons, was lifted and refixed. The pine lining of the ammunition-room has been replaced with teak, and her engineers have been supplied with the new regulation lanterns. The screw steamship Warrior, 40, Capt. the Hon. Arthur A. Cochrane, undertook in Novem ber, 1863, was placed in the Queen's Dock at Keyham, which has just been lengthe❑ed, She received another coating of Hay's composition; her screw was lifted, and some eight or ten Armstrong guns, the copper lining of the chambers of which was defective, were exchanged for ethers differently lined. During the last cruise she was trimmed three feet by the stern. The enlargement of her rudder has proved satisfactory. Although of the same size, 6,loo:tons, and having engines of the same power, 1,250 horses, both by Penn and lions, she has always beaten her sister ship, the Black Prince (which is S feet longer), whether under steam or canvass. Her commission will terminate in August next, but her hull and engines appear to be suf ficiently sound to undertake another commission. The V arrior has not "broken" in dock a quarter of an inch. Her engines have been supplied with some spare propeller brasses; the lignurn vita for the banjo propeller frame con tinues in good order, Experienced engineers consider that both the Black Pritice and the Warrior would work better with a fixed four-bladed screw like that of the Achilles, by the adoption of which also the weight of the screw shears, four tons, and the banjo frame, seven tons, right aft, would be avoided. The. Defence, 16, Capt. Augustus Phillimore (undocked in October last), was placed in No. 1 dock in the Devonport-yard, where her coating of Peacock's composi tion was renewed. She is termed a " good ship." Under canvass, her sister, the Resistance, 17, is the swifter of the two. Her officers consider that the frame of the Defence and her interior fittings are heavier-than those of the Resist ance. The iron-cased ship Prince Consort, 3,5, Captain George G. Willes, C. 8., which was also undocked in Octo ber, 1563, was placed in No, 1 dock at Keyham. Her con dition. excited considerable interest, from the fact that after her memorable trip to Dublin last year it was discovered that galvanic action had already set in on the iron plates. Tc prevent the continuance of this evil, the upper layer of her Muntz's metal was stripped cff, and immediately below the iron plates a cutting, 4 inches deep, was made in the plank all round the ship, and a band of zinc, li inch thick 1 and 4 inches wide, was inserted. The intermediate thick ness, 2i inches, was filled in with plank after the heads of her copper bolts had been struck off. This band would have been 6 inches wide, but for the risk of disturbing a much larger number of copper bolts. The Lords of the Admiralty consider the results of the experiment sufficiently satisfac tory to justify them in their determination to place a zinc band 12 inches wide round the iron cased cupola ship Royal Sovereign, 5, at Portsmouth. It is considered at Devonport that by cutting out so much of a ship's original planking immediately under the lowest tier of iron plates that tier is left almost entirely dependent on the support of its bolts, as the original wooden foundation is to a great extent removed. Her Majesty's corvette Wolverine, 21, Capt. De Horsey, still remains in the river off Woolwich dockyard. Her de lay is occasioned by the necessity of returning the whole of her chain cables, and supplying others in their place, to work more freely over the capstans. Her present orders are to join the Channel, and proceed eventually to the West India station. The Swedish screw corvette Me, 16, Capt Adeborg, from Cherbourg for Stockholm, put into Great Yarmouth roadstead last week for coal. On receiving supplies she pro ceeded on her voyage, THE ARMY. Prince Arthur and his cousin, Prince Adolphus Frede• rick of Mecklenburg strelitz, attended by Major Elphin stone, R.A., paid a morning visit on Saturday to Woolwich Arsenal, and were recaved with Royal honours. They went over the whole establishment, examining each branch with great attention. They entered first the dial square, or foun dry branch of the Royal gun factories, where they were shown a huge slab of iron weighing 75 tons, cast on the pre ceding day, and intended as a block for one of the 14 ton steam hammers used in making the coiled guns. They next visited the gun factories, and remained there a considerable time, inspecting the new 7 inch and 9 inch navel guns in course of manufacture. They also witnessed, with much apparent interest, the operations at the coiling and welding forges, boring mills, sighting and view rooms, &c., inspected the sealed pattern rooms and gun stores, and proceeded through the shell factories, carriage department, gun -mounting shed, laboratory, papermill, &0., and left for Greenwich Park at 1. On Thursday afternoon their Royal Highnesses went up the river from Woolwich Dockyard on a trial trip of the first new twin screw steam launch, built for the iron ship Minotaur, and fitted wit' moveable engine by Messrs. Mandalay, Sons, ... They afterwards visited t he dock yard and th- —at snips in pro gress. comCoplietGeduyo,nC.B,,commandant half. yearly inspecti on o f the troops by visiting Thursday thea the camp a t C o l c h ester, battalion schools and w i tnessing sword exe rc i se r.. - ..non the officers. The results of th e in spection been generally satisfactory. .C° ) .. Sir D. W oo d , K C . 8., an d h ea dquarte rs , t ogether `.pith Major Reilly' s and Lieut.-Col. Mitchell's batteries of the 7 1 1 brigade, Royal Horse Artillery, are under orders to leave Woolivich and commence their match on June 1 for the camp at Aldershott. On Friday last Col. Hine, Bth Hussars, Government in.. specting officer of pensioners, reviewed the pensioners of the Nottingham district i n the park adjoining the town. About 408 were present. After the inspection had termi nated Col. Hine complimented Col. Storer, commander of the pensioners, on having the honour to command such a fine body of veterans. He said that his report of their effi ciency would be favourable. 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They possess the qualities and the resources necessary for their development, and only regret not to have been able to prove up to the present moment the energy of their will by taking part in the combats engaged for their cause. Let them be only replaced in that state of defence in which they were when Earope, and not Denmark, disarmed them, and they will prove by deeds that they know how taeonquer and maintain their independence. I have not thought it sufficient to protest simply in the name of my own rights and those of my country against the violence that might be exercised against them, and to claim my due when the question was discussed. I thought it my duty to explain at the same time how the realisation of these rights corresponds to the wishes of the how in respecting them the exigez, , : - conditions of a durable *— attests that P'l ,uople, and ......,• of justice and the ~.ace will be conciliated- The past Sung as the Schleswig-Holstein quarrel shall ay , ye settled in a legal manner, it will never oeaee to re appear on battle-fields and in European. congresses until that day when full satisfaction shall have been given to legitimate rights and to the national tame, Kie], April 16, Is6 l l. (Signed) FREDERIC. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON THE PRINCE OF WALES AT THE LITERARY FUND DINNER.—The London season would be incomplete without the Royal Academy Dinner and the Literary Fund Dinner. There is a common nature belonging to these two national institutions, for such they are, though there is a great difference between the artists entertaining their patrons and friends of in be half and dried ink bottles of the day. What they hav e , literature of an eating, admirable charity d in common is that the notables of social the a n for speechifyingth epens worn-out states men and political men, the wr'..cers and artists of tho time are expected on ;,pesooccasions to deliver t h em selves of set e: at i ons i n pra i se o f art an d l etters . There is nr:n a little interest in all this. The country lectures at the local Atherrea delivered by holiday-M.P.'s have their Value. One s g hs at the parthriott pains of a con n o e sometimes e m s s k u i g n try gentleman delivering himself of a sort of would be academical e/otM, and uttering the improptu reminiscences uf history and classics for wnieh he is furtively indebted to the curate of the parish. But ail this tends to keep up at least the preten- sion of an edacated standard ; and as every noble man of mark and every Cabinet Minister is alivays expected to be ready with some Yeitinisbences of general reading and literary or al-tistic talk at one or other of the twin Londri dinners, the Literary Fund anniversary hat Its value. The charity which "t represents is Well and usefully conducted; and though an attempt was unsuccessfully made a few years ago to discredit its management, general bon fideeee is felt i n it s e ffi c i e ncy. On Vtrednesday the Prince of Wales commented what we may almost call his publit tiro by presiding at this dinner. The oecesien bust have been a very trying one. These celebrations are attended by an exacting and critical, though generous, audience. Men not only of mark, but of tried eloquence, and long ex perience in sitting at the middle of a great ernss• table, would find en this special ottaeicia a difficult task before them. The prince of Wales had to make his debut, tint only as a Chairman and a speechemaker ) but as a public man. It is en odd way that we have of introducing the Heir of Eng land or the Consort of the Queen to the duties of station and responsibility by asking him to make a speech on booke and bookmakers in general. tut the son had only to follow his fathers admirable example. It were, of course, invidious to compare Prince Albert and the Prince of Wales on a similar occasion. Prince Albert's mind was rest in the professorial mould. Set speechen and occasional spoken essays of the formal and academic type— papere, for such they were, carefully elaborated and thought over—were eminently suited to his cast of thought. His education had fitted him to compose and deliver them; and a powerful and re flective mind, deeply impreesed With the delicate responsibilities of hiseitatietl, and perfectly aware that he had many prejudices to combat, was spurred by the oppetennity or making a public speech. It was by his public) speeches that the late Prince Consort slowly won his way, first, to the attention, then. to the respect,and lastly to thc admiration of the country. 'the same inducements to it special energy are not necessary in the Prince of Wales's case. His education had been different from that of his father. What is wanted in a constitutional Sove reign is not so much genius and deep wisdom as ease, a thorough sense of responsibility, good tt.ste and right feeling. Splendid ahilitiet; aI•C almost out of place in oar Sovereigns. The Prince of Wales exhibited these gaelitiesi both of mind and character in all that he is reported to have said on Wednesday evening, He went in a. business-like way to the purpose of the meeting, and we all like to see common sense taking the practical view of things. After all, the Literary Fund is simple in its objects. It gives to decayed and r k.)or authors some little solace and comforts in age and Sickness; it gives aid secretly; its almoners are men of honour; and its managers know that letters would be dishon oured by the popular arts of begging, and b popu lar reports and eloquent secretarial tai. The Prince of Wales said this, and, because it was a simple thing to say, he said it simply and without affecta tion. There was good taste in avoiding the etyle of an undergraduate's theme on the obieetT, rica sures, and advantages of learning ih cheral ; and there were too many old stager. ;resent, who had themselves prolusionised it rectorial addresses and lectures at country intitutes, for the Prince to have any chance in the high style of platitude and ' 6o ° - ventional rhetoric, And there wan gdo'cl taste, and a ppearance good feeling also, in the brier but sincere tribute to his father' s memoree, tratl to hi s f a th er ' s on a former eetAtiiol3 of the same n a t u re. Altogether t i ne Prints achieved a marked success, if succ ess cannists in having a sufficient naivete rated in attaining it. The Heir to the Thnne of Eng land has a part to play, or rathet a function to discharge, which is not withent its difficulties ; but those diffi culties are best got over by perfect and entire sin` cerity and simplicity. Honesty carries a man, on the whole, through the duties of life better than any other quality. The late Prince Consort Was honest and loyal to his duties, arid he tetognised their special temptations. He met their subtlety by equal subtlety of intellect; his decisions showed the result of deep thought and long pondering. But this habit of mind has in its turn its dangers, cape cially to a public man. If the late Prince Conso rt had not been loyal to his country, he m i g ht have been a very dangerous intriguer. He was too good to be dangerous, but hi s character had all the elements of political skill and subtlety in _attic e father's position had its tempts*:-ns and sna res, in his case so happily corn scarcely less dift cudt quered, other grounds. The heir 1 : 0 tnough upon 'cry prothinent, and sue throne cannot be 1 e a public man, • j et, if he is net in genie sees uis country will complain.is the worse position is No roan but history for an apprenticeship to his calling t to thrones presents a catalogue of heirs apparent to rule by who have certainly not learned. . eW 1 matters the their expectancy or rule. In political Prince of Wales may have, or rat must have, the son's of youth and express them. Yet the best yearsspent in exclusive devotion to the pursuits of opening manhood are but idly life without its opinions, but a constraint is laid upon hint him not to co untry personal responsibilities. On every account, there. • , fore, the country will Ow ge e the Pr i nce of Wales accepting, as he has already f . done, those op portunities,rare though they he,o dentifying himself it is. Among made our and his England w non around of all those public interests—the e l l ich party can have with some of those lofty publicsbniterests which have educated and public men, in pent, at least very literature stands, if not pre-col been educated to high. The Prince of Wales has hereditary taste in art no place and selfish aggrandisement is impossible— appreciate literature ; an and reverence for science must be natural in his father's son. If the Prince's sphere of b usefulness the country will more thoroug_ey. pp e the It is of good diligent cultivation of a scanty ti ItlEl been commenced and the range of his possible duties a s r u e t e n ia a t rrow, omen that his public career father's case conducted under tb p u b a l u i s o p icesw confidence.hich in his Ey e n the honest desire to - tread in his father's steps w ill be loyally appre ciated. Letters and which and a kindre d taste fo r letters, give princes friends s tand them in better try which is not arms, but upon arts, and the counh hold stead than the minions of f ashion or the parasites of faction. Our real greatnes s de p ends, not u p on our great intellectually has hut a poor o on material prcsperity. That the Princ e of Wales is dis p osed frankly to recognise the highest sources of national greatness is surely a matter f or national congratu lation. THE " SPECTATOR" ON JOHN PARRY AND MRS. ROSELEAP'S EVENING PARTY. —Few people COM paratively, we imagine, are aware how very extra ordinary an intellectual feat has been for some time nightly visible in London at oue of those evening " entertainments" which is to a play what negus is to wine, or at which the drama loses half its evil by losing all its interest—the " Gallery of Illustra tration." You have indeed to go through something to arrive at it, for Mr. and Mrs. German Reed, while they provide no doubt all that a well-regu e un ev e'a enter- latpd mind (in ht. to eEnect by their various rechaujes of themselves in diffe rent costumes those who come willing and anxious to " make believe very much" as the Marchioness said to Mr. Swivcller about her diluted beer, cer tainly do not attempt to furnish any very refined species of amusement. For any one, however, who will sit out the dinner for the sake of the dessert, there is reserved a rare and, in its light way, even subtle enjoyment. The last half hour of the "en tertainment" is more than entertaining; it is an achievement which not only illustrates, it extends the very meaning we attach to the phrase "plastic" art. Mr. John Parry—whom we can recollect, we should think, twenty years ago singing that ordi. narily vulgar species of song called " comic" with a humour and expression that allied them to comedy rather than farce—comes on to the scene ^' and in his own dress, and tells thP he is going to introduce •' evening party. T • illusion. F‘- ..torte atedientS;e teat seem tes deelArl. mesy bhhicy help the ...ese..ys t thee he represents Mrs. Roseleaf eerselcitatekeeeele a fan and bouquet which he shoWS us lying on the piano, but be, will not deed any other aid at all from bostittne. Thhs intich he says simply in his own eiereen, and the audience have time, while hee is :laying it, to notice a face somewhat wan, rather weary, yet with a colour slightly hectic, perfectly refined, end yet with something of that expression of mental bareness---nf thought and emotion with the bloom eft by being laid bare to others—which we aetnehow associate with racteristia roundness, baldness, and asene Cross lines of thought of feelitne 'tile face, No face could be ittsagited that offers at the first glance less promise of flexibility. You would say of it—as Shakspere said of the elephant—that "lit legs ate legs'for necessity, not for flexttreOes-that its lines of expression are linen rot neeessitY, not for dexttre. You. have scarcely made up your Mina that it is so, whets Mr Parry sits 'down to tb.e piano, and his face at once assultes thet btolid expression of hired drndgery of fishiness islauded in the amusement of others, which, without an explanation, declares to every one the professional pianist engaged for an evening p arty at which there are to be a few qua grilles, - While thus playing Mr. Parry announces the names of a few guests succeeding one another, and presently rising from the piano he takes up his bouquet and fan, and the stolid persistency of the hired musician is suddenly transformed into the engaging suavity and complaisance of a lady-like hostess. Mrs Roseleaf is a thorough lady, slightly affected indeed, but with the affectation arising from an excessive amiability, not froth any tinge of vul garity. There is nothing Very original in any thing she says—" This is a pleasure indeed--eso kind of Sou to come," and so forth ; but the epettator gazing through the beet of opera glasses at the genOeman its plain black clothes who is baying all this, Can hardly persuade himself it is a gen tleman at all, and not Mrs. Roseleaf. Indeed, so stung is the illusion that when we come away and recall the scene in memory, it is the hardest thing in the world to believe We have seen' only one actor thientthodt, and that actor a gentle Men not in disguise. Presently Mrs Roseleaf inquires after the baby of one of her guests, and toe reply indistinctly murmured is re flected with such extraordinary vividness in the dropping lines of unspeakable concern ih her face, that you know it meat haVe been erotip of a More than ordinatily datneerotis kind. When the answer to:the next inquiry after a seemed childagaih length ens tint the face, it is to a lea's degree, and you see the amiable hastesa's desire to blend her sympathy with the cheering playfulness appropriate to the occasion when ;her guests are not, after all, in too much alarm to come to her party; and so with :a plertiant regret of expression she slides bale through some a itch rethark as sad indeed, why you have had quite a sick house," to her gentle company-smile. Then she introduces her little daughter to her friend; and the pleasant Company smile gro ma tender with the illusions of maternal pride'. The daughter is, of course, present only to the spiritual gaze of the spectator, but few who re call the scene will find it easy to persuade thent- I selves that the little girl was only seggested to them, and no mere there than any Other of the shadowy Wore. While being praised for decoroits and pretty behaViottr, the voting lady thatehes at the fan or the bouqeet, aild the mother's pride in her good dohductelaanges gently into playful amuse ment at her childish tricks. Then the little girl retires and the party grows denser. You can see that Mrs. Roseleaf moves abotit with greater diffi culty and mo:e anxiotis, sense Of responsibility: She prevails on a Mr iene to eitee, and the fah and bouquet Vaniehing), *e stiddenly behold Mrs. Rose leaf he more, bat a vain and self absorbed young man of muddy sentiment, awkwardly oonseions Of literary pretensions, and with t btoOping gait, who, with a glass in his eye-, is featehing dieconteetedly for an admiretien which lie (166 not seem to rebeive. The extietbitlinate o:PreOlfin CtirLici fermenting vanitiee-neent eoesplaisant nor self-assured, bat suttdenly emigeant, which now passes over the actor's flee is again completely transformineie, agei cha racter, everything is abseliitely changed; the scum of gloomy hoobbledeheyieh conceit spreads like an unclear fluid over the Whole facN lie eings big song, " Woeld ydu late me, if you knew me . ('‘ Words and music both my own," as he blurts outs with a gloomy and clumsy vanity at the con clusion), interrupted by nerderolis announbenaents of successive guests; at each of which Mr. Jere darts furious glanees tester& the dont—and at the end scuilles a' ay Frain the piano With sulky eyes, at Oise inflicting retribution, and searching the corn ' piny for traces of admiration—amidst the profuse thanks and apologies of Mrs. Roseleaf. Then Mrs. Roseleaf consults her husband as to the nest part of the pro; rainMe; tend deq ' des to get the 'iucrii.as to cif g. The Fluere ss, nowever, are ooviousiy divided from her by a great crush, though no mens tion is made of it—and the inimitable company playfulness with which she peeps through an acci dental vista in the crowd and wafts with s*eeteet faseiriatnen and smiling menace, threatening a re quest, the words, "I'm coming to you," over the intervening space, is one of the most effective touches in the piece. Mr. Fluenia has a fearful cold, and toneplying at his wife's instance gets through a single lino of modulated cough —on which Mr: and Mrs. Roseleaf interchange with each other a very expressive sentence or two of condolence-a and then we are introduced to Miss Flora Gushing ton, a young lady of conscious attractions, who sings an Italian duet with an admirer at the urgent ralueg of Mr. itobeleat- , -and whose sweet and side long but still open demands for admiration are a very carious ecrgragt to, the fumes of smoky conceit whiCh elooded Mr. jenn's broW. And fee thb eeen lug party slides away—the pianist getting more weary and utterly mechanical in hie movements, and more profciumlly Woodenefaced, as he plays the last Sir Roger de, eoSerleyl and the 6ompani diepeist. the there're' of the p6rfortnaite is the extraordinarily powertnl impression left upon the mind tivitt., the diaraoteta and faces we 'ate keeit till really genuine and dietinct tagility to connect them with the black-suited gene tleman, as we yet know, was the only person pre sent. It is, in its way, the most wonderful triumph of powers of expression over plain material feet that can well be conceived: The only machinety used is the sytabolistii of wide, gostute, and lines of ex pression, —and to coneteract all these is the I.sbysie cal evidence of our senses that no one is there but Mr. John Parry in Mr. Sohn Parry's ordinary dress, —.and yet we carry away the keenest feeling of only having seen Mr. John Parry at the commencement and conclusion, and of having beheld in the interval all kinds of invisible ladies and gentlemen, whose characteristic gait and expressions there was nothing to show us except the changing postures and lines in the actor's person and face. The feeling it pro duces almost is, that Mr. Parry must himself get confused between his real and some of his fictitious characters. THE " LONDON REVIEW" ON " THE OWL" AND THE FRENCH EMPEROR.--For some time a mystery has hung over certain small and humorous extracts that , have appeared, both in the Morning Post and in the Times, heeded with the significant title of The Owl. What was The Owl? Where was its place of habitation Noboby seemed to know. " Monsieur, perch© apparemment," said M. Talley. rand to a lame gentleman who was boasting that he never went to bed. Doubtless The Owl roosted somewhere, but it had no known locus standi. All that could be considered certain was that it was a bird of audacious tendencies, and very much in clined to make fun of her Majesty's Government. This week, however, The Owl has won for it self an European reputation. Across the Channel, the Emperor's private secretary, M. Mocquard, was alarmed by it, and hastily wrote to the French papers to contradict the truth of what, in the columns of The owl, never pretended to be more than an amusing joke. Sitting aloft on its post or perch of observation, the Owl, for some weeks, has been retailing to the public every kind of State secret. The members of the Conference have been taken off seriatim; Hord Russell has been depicted as he might demean himself when offering a remark in German to M. von Beust ; and the world has been even favoured with a pretended copy ot the des patches sen, to the admiral of the Channel fleet. Daring the last week, the mysterious bir d of Minerva published a clever squib, purporting to be a letter addressed to the Owl, by M. Mocquard, on the sub ject of the foreign policy of the P a lmerston . ian Mini stry. The Owl had not thought, we are told, of publiebing at all for a fortnight; for it appears that the publication of the Owl is irregular, and depends on the sweet caprice of its editor. But . when the letter— verbosa et granclis epistola— arr ived from the Tuileries, on the merits ot the system of "med dle and muddle," the Owl felt it a solemn duty to Rider its decision, and came out into daylight recon that nothing less than a surgical operation would ever get ajoke into a Scotchman's head, he never pro bably thought that a Charivari would pats muster among the crowned heads of Europe as a State paper. M. Mocquard's sense of the ridiculous must have been strangely swallowed up in the solemnity of his position. His excuse is the lees, for not only is he said to be familiar with English life, but he is also a man of letters. The only thing t o b e urge d in his favour is the fact that his Imperial tnaster so ela often is wont to burst upon the we ments of alsimilardescription, that perh a p s leet- docu ments guard trembled lest Europe should b e ite;-: Moe, by a second forgery followce - Confer'-''upon forged Confeae o- —lc 7 0 elmselt titßitt the siv --e"' At'Patte 13 ;ln P (3B ' Toni forgive us fps ilia ,Irreverent suftestion t--7-that ; M. Moe !paid and S apelean li.. saw the joke them selVes, but were afraid, from an experience of the English Foreign Office; that . the English Foreign Office might net see it. They were natiirallY anxious On *want of Lord Aus6ell'e poor head. Politeness Ould render it impossible for them to assume in their diplomatic correspondence that the Queen's Ministers might again be taken in: Accordingly M. Mocquard,, eabrificed hitAelf tkl i the demon of perisiah pereihage in order to save Lord Russell l'rom falling victim to another !abet. if thiS is the real explanation, it Says a great .deal fOr M. Modquardt deliCakor, We are afield that the other AeliAtin or the difficulty will, however, be more generally received, and that the Imperial secretary is destined to run the gauntlet of the wits of France. He will be tansetis for all tithe for having coMP3sed a political comedy on the subject of Abde el-Kadere—for having introduced carpels on to the French stage froth the lardin des PlanteS, and for hatiog mistaken the Owl for a newspaper of high political gravity. The Owl, after this, like the jester of King Louis, may abdicate and retire in peace, for the cap and bells belong elsewhere. • M. Mocquard has vitaditated his right to pass as the greater owl of the two. M. Mocquard's blunder lets us into a secret, and draws up for one moment the curtain that hangs over the Emperor's private cabi net. Tbis gentleman is the author of a consider able portion of his Imperial Majesty's correspon dence. We now know what M. Meequard thinks an Imperial letter at this crisis might be like. He has the making of them, and he ought to know ; and here we have what he acknowledges to be an ingenious and deceptive imitation. A genuine let ter should Show, we may infer, a frank disregard of diplomatic etiquette. It should call attention to the fact that Napoleon 111. is not merely the most pacific, biit the wisest and most dignified of princes. He alone is right and consistent in his policy; and through him France holds the arbitra ment of peace or war in the hollow of her hand. There is nothing the Emperor more thoroughly enjoys than patronising the English people. There is nothing he finds harder to accomplish than the maintaining his temper , at the sight of English foreign policy. If the wl has not hit the exact truth, it hei gone taneommonly near it, What alarms M. Mocquard is, that his master's sentiments are proximately conveyed, and it did not easily occur to him that the Emperor's real opinions could hate teen inserted in an English Comic periodical at a venture. if the Emperor never wrote what the Owl humorously put into his mouth, we may surmise, without risk of error, that he thinks and long had thought it. This is the only palliation for M. Mocquard'a obtuseness to a joke. The joke in question was only a serious truth, expressed with an improbable absence of formality and etiquette.' THE " EXAMINER" ON THE DANISH QUESTION. do not knave whether the Danish quarrel may be Considered aS at an end. The Conference certainly has come to no set or formal coteltsion, except so far as to consider the treaty of 1852 as no more. It has adjourned for ten days, till the 28th. but this proceeded not from disagreement, but on the contrary frotrt a general though tacit understanding that a compromise was necessary, and was rendered ineretatiVe, not only by the posi tion of the oontendirg patties but by the sentiments of the neutral Powers. Not one of them were pre pared to go the length of war. Such a compromise therefore, ae the belligerent Governments, and the equally Urgent belligerent populatidns would con sent to, became inevitable: We have before declared our disposition to see Holstein giVen to the Ger mans and Schleswig seethed to the Danes. It seems, however, that the attempt to wrest the Southern district of Schleswig frions holstein would lead to disturbance and re sistance, and would require the prolonged sojourn of armies upon the Eider. The Conference, there fore, Or its, titeinherit barer it is said, tacitly decided that a dividing line must tie drawn north of the Eider. When and how that dividing line it to be draWn, remains an unsolved prob:em, and a pro bleth, shall #e#3, riot very easy of adjustment. We had hoped better than this fdr the Danes_ But on the whole, if they lose but half a million of dis affected fellow-subjects, and cut off all pretext for kny futtire interferSnee on the part of the Germans, the Danes may congratulate therhseiskes on being released with iecteased honour and scarcely preflts ftom an. unequal contest. The Ger mans will have aehleiedi if they do take a southern bit of Slesvig, the conquest of bolle banks and the dominant approaches to Kiel harbour. They will have got, thart, the on they have been crying for. The next thing will be to go to' a cooper's and order tubs enough to float the Fatherland that is preOentlY going to be a great maritime people. The toy shops, it is aid are , already preparing tenders for the German fleet of the Future, and a condi tional order for ships has already strived at the Noah's Ark in Holborn. It we not easy, however, td ettki44 at a hone of this conclusion, and during the first sitting Of ih6 Conference the general im pression was one of despair. 'When the German Powers denounced the Treaty of 1852, add When Russia and Denmark held it tenaciously, France remained silebit. TheEaglish plenipotentiaries were at a less what to do. The German Powers went even so far as to demand that their Diet be consi dered the fitting tribunal to decide the claim of suedeeeion. J,,f the Treaty of 1852 were set aside, the German Powers Might indeed pretend that the Diet had claims to decide respecting Holstein. But what had it to do with Slesvig 0 . If the dis pute Wad to be one of law and legal nicety, there was no isette but an appeal to force. A compromise suggested itself to all, And aS that compromise is in favour of the Germans, the balled certainly have shown praiseworthy for bearance in hearkening tO it, and perhaps finally accepting it. The supposed firmneee of the Danes *DS not, indeed, the only stumbling block. What was eilieLly Levied was the criminal obstinacy of von Bismark, who had odadeiled the idea of signalising his administration by keeping gleatig and Holstein for Prussia. Such monstrous ehetensiote were in -1 deed ithpossible ef realisation —if any thiog monstrous is now impossible of realisation on the Continent of Europe---since they would unite all Europe against sl e et, if anything now can unite European Powers against rapine that does not immediately claim a pound or two ,Eet their own flesh. But still feeble opponents of his rottt'iy,might have suggested to the cunning and unscrupuldtie Prussian Prime Mini ster the means and the expediently of adjourning the decision of the Congress, and finally defeating its aim in order to prolong the milti.l l 7 occupation of the duchies. This gather however, ts p i ;:aared too dangerous and barefaced to king William, te;„ - ' O . it is said, incredible as it may seem; foetid it necessary to come round and abandon his own. Claim, lest Bhp mark's folly should place Prussia at the fiat of Europe, and produce a general coalition against her. Were Prussia wise she would limit her efforts for the present to commercial extension. She can do more by her Zollverein than ever she will be allowed to do by armies. Liberal commercial legislation, joined with liberal political administration, would make Prussia a great country. Military aggression in the present state of Europe will not profit her. There is indeed one important point of view in which this Slesvig and Holstein question has not been considered. It is the commercial. England receives half a million's worth of cattle from that region, besides corn and all kinds of provi sions, for which our manufactures go in exchange. Up to 1848 the tariffs of Denmark and the Duchies were different. In 1851 the one tariff was established, by which the rate of import duty into the Duchies was increased. We shall now see this undone: and probably Holstein will sooner or later join the Zollverein. Were she to do so after the acceptance and ratification of the German- French Treaty of Commerce, there would be a dimi nution of tariff of well nigh 25 per cent. There are difficulties, to be sure, in the way of Holstein joining the German union, as long as Hamburg, Lubeck. Lauenburg, and the Mecklenburgs remain out of it. But, nation of shopkeepers as we are, these things do not enter into the public head. No journal has touched upon the subject, and it has been treated disinterestedly and as a simple question of public right and justice, without an allusion to figures, to the advantage or to the balance of trade. If Ger mans would but consider these facts, they would abandon the charges which they make against us of narrowness and selfishness. The fact is, the English are a very earnest and right-seeking people, ready at every just opportunity to fling material interests to the wind. Not only material interests, but personal predilections, yield here to the sense of right, as has been seen in two great foreign quarrels by the small influence of our natural pre dilections for the Germans in Europe or the men of the North, with whom our natural sympathies are strongest, in America. THE JAW•BONE OF AN Ass lies done more de• sirnetion in this country than it ever did is the hwads o The thunderstorm of Friday, Which appears to have been pretty general all over the country, visited the coasts of Northumberland and Durham with unprecedented vio lence, and during several hours of the busiest portion of the day caused considerable alarm in the principal towns of thd district. It broke over Berwick a little after tuidnidht, Continued with brief interval. A • ULltll .3 o'clock in the after noon. e storm burst over the towns on the Tyne later l about 9 o'clock in Jthe form:ma i with vivid flashes of utrnain t tng t anLrol i l i i g n h g tn t i hre d r o i rn a s coom a. pa y n e i ry ed b e y o ' nlid d er el a uge of lt amount of injury in that district between 9' and 10' o'clock. About the time mentioned a labourer, who had been employed draining in a field at Prospect-Mild, sear North Shields; *as making hir way along the waggon way there to obtain shelter hi the engine -house, when he was struck by the lightning and killed - a`pon the spot. There. were several persons near him at the time, but tion•a 01 them were latirt; The tinfortmnte deceased, whose nama . /04 Oswald Gibson, had been struck above the right ear, tb,e lightning having passed down his left side and leg, which, were completely stripped. gis clothes were torn, and pieces, of them were scattered about the spot where the deceased fell. About the earhe time that this accident occurred farm labourer named Foster, belonging to Fife-street, Mount Pleasant, Gateshead, was employed rolling a field, belonging to a small farmer named Elder, near to Wreck. ington. lie had loosed his horses when the storm came on, and was returning to the village of Wreckington with his horses yoked to a cart, about 10 o'clock in the forenoon, when he was struck by lightning, and killed instantly. One of the horses was also killed, and the other much injured. Dense masses of black clouds continued to pass over North. umborland and Durham until 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the lightning at times being very vivid. Several houses were injured in Newcastle and Shields by the lightning striking them. Several persons had narrow escapes in these towns, but none were seriously hurt. About 4 minutes before 1 o'clock, while a thunderstorm was passing over North Shields, the time gun, with which a fusee had been con- nected in anticipation of the time being sent down from Greenwich at 1 o'clock, was fired by the lightning. A. tele graph post on the highway side at Howden was shattered to fragments, and at the same place the lightning struck one of the wires and travelled into the River Tyne Commission. era' office, smashing an iron box. At South Stockton the lightning lifted the roof of a house, and a widow woman named Walters, aged 75, was so shaken that she was not expected to recover. So severe a thunderstorm has not been experienced on the north-eastern coast during many years. The rain which accompanied the thunder and lightning have had a wonderfully reviving effect upon the crops,iwhich now look remarkably fresh and green. In the North Riding the extraordinary heat of the last 7 days culminated on Friday afternoon in one of the most terrific storms ever experienced. About noon dense masses of black cumuli gathered in the south-west, and gradually overspread the heavens until all was so dark that gas had to be resorted to for some hours. About 3 o'clock, the storm broke out, its greatest fury being spent on the north side of the great vale of Pickering, taking the lines of the towns of Helmsley, Kirby, Sinnington, Pickerington, &a. The lightning and the thunder were simultaneous, and several persons speak to having seen ball lightning, and also to having seen the forked lightning pass horizontally along the sky from one cumulus to another. The track of the storm was to the north .east, and for some hours along the course indicated the clouds poured down a very deluge. The roads and fields were at once flooded, and the streams from the various moor-vallies rose with unexampled ra pidity into raging torrents, carrying down trees and rocks along with them. Kirkdale-bridge, a wooden structure, fairly bent with the pressure against it, and a gentleman had there a very narrow escape for his life. Between Gill amoor and Kirby, Mr. Jackson, a well-known cattle dealer, was driving, and it is believed was disabled by the light. ning. His horse ran away and upset the conveyance, Mr. Jackson being powerless. He died in a few hours. In the same locality several sheep were killed under a tree. Hail• stones as large as nuts fell for some time, and at Sproxton, near Helmsley, and at Al:erston, near Pickering, the de struction of glass is reported very great. Oa Saturday morning the rivers Rye and Derwent, which the previous afternoon were lower than for many years, were found to have filled to the top with floodwater, and in places about Kirby Mills, Marton, Sinnington, and Howe, the roads are submerged. The hail and rain have done great damage to crops. Fruit and even the leaves are cut off the trees, crops are washed up, and gi ass lands are covered with mud in some places. Early potatoes are cut down. The Wolds seemed to attract the southern portion of the storm, but the rain that fell there did not do any damage, but much good, Singularly enough some parts of the Howardian range did not get a drop of rain, although the valleys on either side were being delved. On Saturday night the rivers were still rising. but it was thought they would not overflow to any extent. It is stated in the Scotsmen of Saturday that in Edin burgh rain began to fall heavily in the city, and continued almost without intermission up till an advanced hour in the evening, Distant peals of thunder were heard at intervals during the day, and occasional flashes of lightning were seen—but the storm seems to have raged more furiously in the direction of Selkirk and Peebles. Our correspondent at the ferettrer place writes :—" A thunderstorm of consider able violence passed over this town yesterday. Distant peals were heard during the forenoon, and about midday there was a strange and sudden change in the wind, which for a time blew in violent and fitful gusts from all points of the compass. A heavy thunder-cloud approached from the south, and about a dozen peals were heard as it passed over the town. Rain, mixed with large hailstones, fell in tor rents during the height of the storm. The wind afterwards settled in the west, and rain fell in moderate and refresh ing showers during the afternoon." From Peebles we learn that that town was yesterday visited by a thunderstorm more violent than any that has yet been experienced in the district for many years back. It set in about 11 o'clock and continued almost unceasingly for about two hours, and was heard at intervals during the after part of the day. The heavy rain which fell flooded the streets. At Kelso, also, the storm was experienced, thunder having been heard during the greater part of the day, accompanied in the afternoon by a copious fall of rain. PRUSSIA, The following, being the official text of the de spatch forwarded to the Prussian Ambassador in London by Herr von Bismarck on the 15th inst., as announced by telegraph, has been received at Mr. Renter's office : Berlin, May 15, As it is to be foreseen that the question of the position of the two German Powers with regard to the London Treaty of 1352 will be brought for ward at the approaching sittings of the Conference, I find it requisite to make the following remarks upon the subject : Up to the death of King Frederick VII, the German Powers were able to expect that the Crown of Denmark would fulfil the obligations it had undertaken to wards them) and that by this means, and by a presentation of a succession law to the Estates of the Duchies—which has not even yet taken place—the order of succession aimed at by the London Treaty would be placed in a perfectly legal position before the anticipated case of the demise of the Crown actually occurred. These expectations were not only frustrated by the death of the King, but his successor upon the Danish throne im mediately proclaimed his intention, by the Act of Nov. 18, not to comply with those obligations. The Government of the King immediately called a" ..n. tion to the connection of these obligations with '',,ne intended order of succession, with regard to wh ? ,cn I need only refer to my despatch No. 4 8 7. of Ne ... - ,. 23, and repeatedly declared that it should theretore -consider itself justified in regarding the Treaty of 1 8 r a - 2 as no longer bindinglupon Prussia. That she did nrA instantly proclaim her withdrawal from that ar rrolgcment was owing solely to regard for the remaining Powers, and to hope that Denmark's yielding, by receding from the open breach of her obligations, would re-establish the preliminary conditions and afford the possibility of the maintenance of peace. Even when this hope was deceived, when the constitp. tion for Schleswig, opposed to the treaty, not only remained unretracted upon the let January, but then came into operation, the two German Powers were un willing to make any immediate ne e of their rights. Even at the moment when they were forced to adopt warlike measures against Denmark, they declared in the despatch of the 31st January of the present year that they did not intend to attack the principle of the integrity of the Danish monarchy. But they at the same time expressly stated that Denmark's further persistence in the course she had adopted would compel them to sacrifices which would render it their duty to give up the combinations of 1852, and to endeavour to come to an understanding upon some other arrangement with the signatories of the London Treaty. This case has completely occurred, The Danish Govern ment has carried its persistence in denial to the utmost, and has continued armed resistance to the last. i After all these occurrences the Government of the King cannot consider itself in any way longer bound by the obli gations as contracted on the Bth May, 1852, under other circumstances. Prussia concluded this treaty with Den mark, and not with the other Powers; the ratifications were only exchanged between Copenhagen and Berlin, not between Berlin and London, or St. Petersburg. Even if, which wo do not admit, the London Treaty had been in tended to create obligations between its and the neutral Powers, these would become void together with the treaty as soon as the latter lapsed through non•fulfilment of its preliminary conditions. The Government of the King therefore considers itself, in accordcnce with the declaration of Jan. 31, entirely free from all obligations which could be deduced from the Lon don Treaty of 1852, and justified in discussing any other combination quite independent of that treaty. It results from the nature of political relations that the solution of a question, the European bearing of which the Government of the King has never undervalued, should be attempted in common with the other great Powers, and this natural consequence is recognised by the Government in the concluding sentence of the declaration of January 31. By accepting the English invitation to the Conference the Government of the King has given pooof of its readi ness to seek for and discuss in common the means for this purpose ; and this and nothing else can be the task of the Conference. (Signed) VON BISMARCK.. The Schleswig-Holstein Question, 'rho following is a copy of a declaration which has been presented to the Conference by his High ness the Duke Frederic of Schleswig-Holstein : The approaching re-union of a conference, summoned to deliberate on the means of restoring peace to the North of Europe, induces me to make a statement of my rights which are inseparable from those of my country, and the recog nition of which can alone bring about a durable peace. I acknowlege the generous intentions of the Great Powers to terminate the present Effusion of blood. An assembly of European representative is undoubtedly fully authorised to make common efforts for attaining so noble an aim. Still such an assembly is necessarily limited in its attributions, and cannot decide upon the destinies of a sovereign and of a country, without having obtained their participa'ion and consent. By the demise of his Majesty the King, Duke Frederic VII., Providence called me to the throne of the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. The right of succession, which I claim as representative of the eldest line of the House of Oldenburg, is conformalle to the law of all Germany, and of those European countries in which the inheritance to the throne follows the agnatic principle. Agnation succes- sion, by order of line and primogeniture, has been esta bliehed for the Duchies, not only by the statutes of the reigning house, but still more by pacts concluded between the reigning family and the Estates. It has, moreover, been observed, as a law, during a series of centuries, and serves es the basis of public law in the Duchies. Upon this basis repose the claims of the Duchies to their union and 'heir autonomy. The validity of my rights exists independently of the recognition of any foreign Powers. It is an absolutely do mestic question. Consequently the Treaty of London of the Bth of May, 1852, cannot alter or affect the identical rights of my family and my country. The carrying out of that treaty would, on the contrary, infringe the sacred rights of crowned heads and of populations. The treaty never received the adhesion of the agnates, nor that of the representative bodies, condi tions inherent to the treaty itself. His Majesty the King of Denmark has never fulfilled them with regard to the Duchies, although he has accomplished them in part with respect to Denmark ; neither has the Germanic Confedera tion, whose mission it is to protect the members which compose it, adhered thereto. Engraven in the conscience of the people, and considered to be the condition of its public prosperity, my right con- stitutes itself a power. In 1816, when the Court of Copen hagen showed the desire to:assimilate the laws of succession in the Duchies and in the Kingdom of Denmark, it alone was able to excite immediately general agitation and resist. ance. When a little time after the Danish Government threatened to abolish in the Duchies the succession in ag natic order, and to unite Schleswig to Denmark, the entire population of the two Duchies took up arms in defence of their independence. In the sanguinary struggle, which lasted three successive years, the population furnished proofs that its own rights and those of its princes shall be held by it ever sacred. It was these same principles of legitimacy and national independence which, at the death of his Majesty the King, Duke Frederic VII., caused a general movement to take place. The great majority of the national functionaries re fused the oath of fidelity to an illegitimate sovereign. Po pular agitation already threatened to assume a warlike atti tude when the Federal troops and the armies of the great Powers deliveried the Duchies from the Danish yoke. The population, once mere their own masters, destroyer' signs of foreign royalty in presence even of A part of the country proclaimed nr tinues at present its sanguine- - pleases to designate it. of succession. ine ea .. 4 hostile army. , rights. The war con- .y course. By whatever one , is in its nature and origin a war Declare _..ctona on the part of the representative bodies, tiv' ese of the several corporations, as well as the homage paid me by the inhabitants in general, leave no doubt that in despite of the difficulties accruing from the situation of Enron neither the population nor myself will ever renounce our legitimate right, In presence of such unanimity it can no longer be questioned that a claim so identical with the interests of the country, and so based on the conscience of the public, must be of invincible force. I feel fully aware of the responsibility that I have taken upon myself in proclaiming my rights in presence of my people. Did it concern merely my person and my family I should have hesitated, if not in presence of future dangers, at least in that of an imminent effusion of blood. But the firm conviction that my rights form the basis of the liberty and happiness of the people of Schleswig Holstein has guided me in every act since the death of Frederick VII. During all time, indeed, a profound antipathy has existed, notwithstanding affinity of race, between the inhabitants of Schleswig Holstein and those of Denmark. The history of the preceding eight centuries bears sanguinary traces of it. Under whatever form of government it has been at tempted to unite the two peoples it has always failed. The government imposed upon the Duchies in 1852 led to an oppressive tyranny which did not respect either the school or the Church. The people of Schleswig. Holstein consider their inde pendence as the onty.guarantee of the future. Any other arrangement can merely aliment a new conflict, and provoke disastrous troubles. The separation of the Duchies from Denmark is thus de manded, not only by the principles of legitimacy and legality, but also by the exigencies of humanity and uni versal peace. Even supposing that one might succeed by force to replace the Duchies under the Danish yoke, they would not fail to seize the first opportunity to shake off a rule as odious as unrightiul. As to myself, I should con sider it my duty to summon them at the fit moment to arms, IF, in spite of the spontaneous and non-official manifes tations of populations and actual representatives, Europe should still entertain doubts of the veritable opinion of the country, and should still cling to historic right, rothing can be more equitable then to appeal to the official manifes tations of the will of the country. There are different modes of ascertai inine what are its emna's COUNTRY MARKETS. YORK-SATURDAY. There was only a moderate supply of wheat at market to-day, with a limited attendance. Sellers held out for late rates, but they were with difficulty made. Barley was scarce, with a slow business. Oats also scarce, and with an inactive demand. Bears in fair demand, and recent rates fully made. Wheat, red 378 to 39a Oats.... lBs to 35S White do .4s to 44s Beans 33, to 36g Barley .2 0 6 s to 30s Peas ....—s to —3 Malt, 5Ss to 60s pea qr. ; rye, 28s per qr ; flour, 273 to 29s per sack. GRANTHAM--SATURDAY. Old white' wheat,:42s to 445; red, 37s to 40s per 365 t.; new white, 42sito 44s ; red, 38s to 40s. Malting barley, 33a to 36s per qr ; grinding, 28s to 30s ; oats, old, 23s t 3 265; new, 20s to24s; beans, 34s to 365; peas, 34s to 365. LEICESTER—SATURDAY. We have again to report another week of highly favour able weather. There was a lair show of wheat at market to-day ; prices same as last week, with a limited business. —New white wheat, 42s to 453; red, 38s to 41s per 3( stone. Old red, 333 to 42s per 36 stone. Barley, malting, new, 33s to 36s per qr.; grinding, 28s to 30s; old oats l 28s to 30s; new oats, 21s to 24s per 24 stone. Beans old, 40s to 42s per 38 stone ; flour, 26s to 31s per 20 stone. NORWICH—SATURDAY. There was a liberal supply of wheat to-day, and price: were the same as on this day se'nnight. The demanc ruled dull. Beans, barley, peas, and oats were at forme: rates, with a slow trade, White wheat. 42s to 443 1 Red wheat 388 to 40 Malting barley ...35a to 36s 1 Ch ev alier barley 33s to 34 Distilling d0.....29s to 308 1 Oats.. 24s to 26 Ylour, 25s Od to 268 Od per sack from the miller NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY. • A tomewhat limited show of wheat to-day, with a mode rate dem.td, and late prices were nearly supported. Th show of beky was exceedingly small, and little busines was transacted about the rates of last week. Oats wer disoosed of slowly'. Beans active, at fully former prices —White wheat, front 37s to 40s ; red wheat, 06s to 30! Barley—malting, 30s to 37s ; grinding, 27s to 295. Oat` old, at 24s to 30s Od; new, 19s to 255. Beans sold at 3E to 424c= ; new, 35s to 375., DUBLIN- The attendance to-day was articles, and unaltered in Flo .FRIDAY. thin. A slow trade for al s. d. Wheat, white 24 0 to 26 6 Do., Ted 2l 6 to 24 0 Do., new 0 to U Barley Oats Do., black — 0 to 0 ii s. d. Oatmeal lO 0 to 13 Beans.. . 0 to -- Bere • —oto -- Rapeseed — 0 to Bakers' flour l4 oto 20 Indian corn 27 oto 28 Births. JONES.—On tho 18th inst., at Cranmer Hall, Norfolk, wile of Sir Willoughby Jones, Bart,, of a son. PELLY.—On the 21st inst., at Gastons, the wife of Justini l Pally, Esq., of a son. Marriages. GEOUGALA.—IoNIDEs. — On the 21st inst., at the Or e L . Church, London-wall, Spiridion Georgala , pool, to Maria, eldest daughter of E. C. lonides, Esq" 51, Inverness-terrace. WILLS—HAWARD.—On the 19th inst., at All Soul Langhani-plate, Cuthbert, Wills, Esq., of MM. 1 to Lretitia. Mary, only daughter of Edwintl'award, D.l. 28, Harley-street, Cavendish-square, Gusto? Deaths. BExcii—On the 19th inst., at Oakley Hall, Agnes C3l line, infant daughter of W. W. Beach, Esq., I ‘ l .- L • B ENYON —On the 19th inst., at Stetch worth- rk, Ti c Newmarket, aged 64, deeply regre tted by all w ho I,l ' him, Samuel Yate Benyon, Esq. BISHOP—On the 20th inst., deeply regretted by his f 3 (. 1 1 and friends, Mr. James Bishop , of Lilypet-lae, aged 65. DOLLMAN—On the 20th inst., at Prestbury Cottage, C h tenham, John Dollman, Esq. aged 82. London : Printed and Prbffelted by WILLIA S, Printer, at THE SUN OffiCe Strand, ll2 Ja Ole trand Precinct of the lairoy, n the Caul' 1 MidtlieBex.—Monday, May 23, 186. ~~